Recoil pad



June 8 1926.

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Patented .lune 8, 192

PATENT FFICE.

WILEY G. GIBSON, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.

RECOIL PAD.

Application filed October 31, 1923. Serial No. 671,983.

This invention relates to recoil pads and more particularly to a deviceof this character which is placed upon the shoulder of a person handlinga shot gun, rifle or the like to prevent the recoil thereof frominjuring the shouldei. j

An important object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which may be inflated to a desired degree so as to offer adesired resistance to the recoil of the ffun.

b A further object of the invention is to provide in conjunction with adevice of this character holsters which may be sewed or otherwisesecured within the hunting coats of the owner so that the recoil pad maybe readily shifted from one .garment to another.

The invention further resides in the method of constructing the padhereinafter set forth.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in theaccompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose .of illustration is showna preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein t Figure 1 is a frontelevation showing the manner of applying the pad, and holster to ahunting coat; l

Figure 2 is an enlarged view showing the pad in position in the holster;

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the pad, parts being broken away;

Figure L1 is a section through the pad showing one manner ofconstructing the same; and

Figure 5 is a similar section showing a second manner of constructingthe same.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the pad proper isformed by providiiig a flat coil 10 having a continuous passage 11therein, one end of. which is closed, as at 12, and the opposite end ofwhich is provided with an air'valv'e 13 by means of which the coil maybe inflated, this coil being formed of rubber. The coil may be producedeither by employing a single length of tubing, one end of which isplugged and the opposite end of which is provided with the valve 12d,and coilingthe same to provide a flat coil of the. desired shape andsize or by moulding a coil'of the desired shape and size, forming in themoulding process the passage 11 having its inner end closed and itsouter end provided with the valve 13. To opposite faces of the coil Iapply layers of rubberized fabric 14, the fabric being of such size thatthe edges of the fabric pieces overlie the edges of the coil and therubberized faces of the fabric being next adjacent the coil. Thesefabric pieces are then vulcanized to the coil and to one another aboutthe edges thereof. The edges of the fabric are further secured togetherby means of eyelets 15 directed therethrough.

The pad is preferably reniform, one end thereof being slightly smallerthan the other end. This end will hereinafter be re ferred to as the armend of the pad. In conjunction with the pad a similarly shaped oclret 16is provided, this pocket being formed of fabric 17 and 18 securedtogether about the smaller ends thereof and having the larger endsunconnected. The formed pocket is secured to the inner surface of thehunting coat or the like by stitching, the smaller end of the pocket, asat 19, to the fabric of the coat thereby stitching the flap 2() which isarranged next adjacent to the material of the coat. The flaps 2() and 21are provided with coacting` elements of snap fasteners 22 which may beengaged with one another to retain the recoil pad in position in thepocket. The valve 13 is preferably secured to a flexible tube 23 ofsufficient length to enable this valve to be reached by the mouth of thegunner for inilation without removing the pad from the pocket. It willbe obvious that by providing pockets in different coats the recoil padmay be shifted from one coat to another thus eliminating the necessityof providingr ers of fabric arranged upon opposite faces of the flatrubber section and o greater size than the flat rubber section, saidfabric Iaylayers being secured to one another` and ers being vulcanizedto the fiat rubber iayabout the outer edges of the section, said ers,the air passage being in the form of a fabric layers being' free fromconnections to l0 coil, opposite faces of the section having one anotherintermediate said outer edges. grooves therein between adjacent turns ofIn testimony whereof I hereunto affix my the coil, said fabric layersextending into signature. said grooves, the outer edges of said'fabrieWILEY G. GIBSON.

